Support for fitting doors.



JACOB BROQKS, OF GRIMSBY, CANADA.

SUPPORT FOR FITTING DOORS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

iratenteo. July 3, 1906.

Application filed March 1, 1986. Serial Fe; 363,588.

To a, rah/(mt it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Jason BROOKS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Grimsoy, in the county of Lincoln and Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Supports for Fitting Doors, of which the followmg is a specification.

My invention consists of a device held in position by its own pressure and supports or olds the door while it is being planed on its ed es preparatory to fitting.

e obgects of my invention are to reside means for holding and steadying a cor in courseof laning forfittingpurposes; second, to provi e a device for door-fitting urposes that can be speedily and simply. aced in firm position; third, to provide a device for door-fitting purposes that can be adjusted to fit within various widths of door-frames, and, fourth, to afford facilities for folding the device into compact form for varying pur poses. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing? in which igure 1 is an elevation of the door-holder adiusted to position between the jambs or sides of the door-frame and with a door shown in position, said j ambs and door shown broken, also a piece broken out to show the not of the screw. The upper broken lines show the holder previous to adjustment and the lower broken lines show the holder folded for carryin Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fi 3 is a detail elevation of the adjustable Slit? part of the device. Fig. 4 is a sectional diid elevation through the broken vertical broken line A A of Fig. 2 of the drawings. Fig. 5 is a sectional end elevation through the broken vertical line B B of Fig. 2 of the drawin s.

imilar characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawin s, O is a horizontal arm and has a bevele end 2.

D is a horizontal extension-arm and is adapted to adjustment on the horizontal arm E.

The arm C has side flanges 3, the arm D has side flanges 4, and the arm E has side flanges 5. All said flanges referred to add strength and stability to said arms. The in nor end of the side flanges 5 of the arm E are hinged at 6 to the inner ends of the side flanges 3 of the arm 0. The up or part 7 of the arm 0 extends beyond the nge 6 and rests on the top of the arm E when both said arms are in horizontal position, as shown. The arm E has an oblong slot 8 in the upper part thereof and is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings. The arm D is adapted to slide on the arm E, and the arm D has lower interior lips 9, on which the flanges 5 of the arm E rests. A hand-screw F passes through the top of the arm D and through the slot 8 and into a nut 19 on the under side of the arm E to fasten the two arms D and E together? In'Fig. l of the drawings the arms D and E have a piece broken out therefrom to show the nut 10 of the screw F. The slot 8 allows adjustment of the arms D and E that is, the extension of the arm D-the drawings showing about the limit of the contraction of the arms D and E. The op osite or outer end parts of the arms D an C have suitable sockets or recesses 12 for the insertion of rubber pads or cushions 13, which are secured in said sockets. The rubber pads must extend beyond the arms D and 0,530 as to prevent them engaging with the side jamb J of the do0rframe. The pads 13 are made of rubber or other flexible material, so that they might not deface the jambs when the arms D and C are pressed to position. On one side of the arms C are ln s 15, extendin therefrom, and between sai lugs is inserted one end of a door H, with one side edge resting on the floor, in order that said door may be steadied and firmly held while the carpenter is handlaning the opposite side edge for fitting. en the door is in position, as shown, it is held very firmly and is capabie of resisting any force that the carpen ter may exert upon it in planing.

In order to place the device in position between the jambs of a door-frame, the arms are raised on the hinge 6, as shown in the upper broken line in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and the screw F tightened. Then the whole is pressed down to horizontal position and immovable between the doorambs. The extension 7 of the arm C at this time engages with the top of the arm E and prevents said arms from dropping on the hinge 6. The lips 9 on the inner side of the flan es of the arms D retain the arms D and E in orizontal and slidabie position one with the other. The screw F together with the slot 8, allows the arms to be extended to fit between various widths of door-frames. The to of the arm E has a number of transverse lines 16, numbered to denote the setting of the arm D to fit certain widths of door-frames. The lower broken lines in Fig. 1 show the arm U folded to the arm D for compactness when carrying the same.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a support for fitting doors, arms hinged together, one of the arms to lock on the other arm when. horizontal therewith, an adjustable arm on one of the hin ed arms, means for fastening the adjustab e arm to parallel position therewith, and means on the slide of the opposite hinged arm to hold the oor.

2. In a support for fitting doors, arms hinged together, one of the arms extended to rest on the top of the other arm when both arms are horizontal, an adjustable arm on one of the hinged arms, means for fastening the adjustable arm to parallel position therewith, means on the side of the opposite hinged arm to hold the door, a socket on the outer end of the adjustable. arm, a similar socket on the outer end of the opposite hin ed arm and rubber pads secured in said soc ets.

3. In a support for fittin doors, horizontal arms hinged together an adapted to lock in horizontal osition, a slidable arm on one of the hinge(. arms and extending beyond thereof, means for adjusting the slidable arm, means for rigidly securing the slidable arm, means on the side of the opposite hinged arm for holding the door, a socket on the outer end of the door-holding arm, a similar socket on the opposite and outer end of the slidable arm, and rubber pads secured in the sockets, and extending therefrom.

JACOB BROOKS.

Witnesses JOHN H. HENDRY, LIZZIE BROOKS. 

